| | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | What is the most convenient way can you think of for using a commandline dns lookup utility? Like what parameters would you find most convenient? What output would you find the most readable/useable? You see, I'm making one and am collecting ideas. | | | |
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| | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 68 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 68 | I'd like a DNS client to provide me with the lookup results for an IP or a hostname, then give me the nameservers that assigned that result (if it's not a .com|org|net sorta name (i.e. upper level) | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 185 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 185 | Allow it to output to a text file, oh, i guess you could just do like C:\>dns www.yahoo.com >> output.txt Right? Would that work? If not, make it possible to output to a text file. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | I know that its a totally differant thing completely, but it'd be kind of handy if you could: C:\>dns -t UnderGroundNews.com and get an output of the traceroute file for say 30 hops :x... But thats taking advantage of a dns utility since traceroute and ping are two entirely differant tools  . | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | no actually traceroute and ping are almost completely the same (same protocol ICMP). dns however is of course a completely different protocol, and no I won't have that feature because of that.
yes mornse, you can output the data from the query to file. Which is why I'll have options to include not only answer records, but authoritative records and additional records to recieve the full report like my current DNS lookup gives. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | lol, well, nevermind. I decided I don't need suggestions (although they're still welcome). I finally sat down and decided to do some planning for the command-line rather than coding as I go. The command-line system I've developed fits all my ideals: Powerful - rediculously powerful typer friendly - pre-configure commandline profiles (reduces typing) readable/intuitive commandline options It'll be a downright joy to use!  Imagine typing this into the commandline anytime: C:\>dns !yahoo And getting all the IP addresses associated with yahoo.com . Or how bout this: C:\>dns !IP www.undergroundnews.com !IP would have contained all the options you desire for your basic IP lookup needs. gosh DANG I love being a genious. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 68 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 68 | Mornse - just a tip - any program outputs via "command > textfile.txt" to textfile; it's usually a feature of the OS you're using.
And no, that was *not* a flame. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 168 Member | | Member Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 168 | Well, not any...
Try the route command on windows. It won't let you pipe or redirect the output. It's a real pain actually, 'cause the help is more than one screen full. :-/ | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 256 Likes: 1 UGN Security Staff | | UGN Security Staff Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 256 Likes: 1 | ./dns www.bob.com Resolvoed www.bob.com to 64.55.188.20 or elite things like ./dns *.bob.com | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | Well, I had already completed the program, but this is what it currently looks like with default settings. Is this good enough? (keep in mind that some domains have multiple IP addresses) C:\Documents and Settings\SR\Desktop>dns www.bob.com
Recursively querying A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET (192.5.6.30)
Recursively querying ns2.adgrafix.com (140.239.36.2)
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** Answer Records **********************************************************
www.bob.com A 64.55.188.20
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C:\Documents and Settings\SR\Desktop>dns bob.com
Recursively querying A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET (192.5.6.30)
Recursively querying ns2.adgrafix.com (140.239.36.2)
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** Answer Records **********************************************************
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bob.com A 64.55.188.20
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C:\Documents and Settings\SR\Desktop> (for some reason I had to insert periods in the blank lines cause UBB wouldn't show the blank lines) | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | I think neo wants to have *.bob.com for:
joe.bob.com
mom.bob.com
jack.bob.com
he basically wants it so that it'll dns all of the various hostnames, which i think would be sort of difficult (never use impossible, always someone who will go the long mile to kick your [censored]). | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | There is no way within the DNS protocol to enumerate all the hosts a domain possesses. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | I know, hence why i said it'd be difficult lol, i didn't want to be entirely negative about it  ... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 256 Likes: 1 UGN Security Staff | | UGN Security Staff Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 256 Likes: 1 | aye SR.. but using either whois/nameserver servers you could get the list... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | damnit neo, I already said how you could get the list. Why'd you have to bring up the topic where I made a statement I've already said wasn't true? Go spam your [censored] on the newer topic: http://www. UnderGroundNews.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000327 Closed. | | |
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